Container



vJ. KAUFMAN CONTAINER Filed July 5. 1924 rfa. I 3

Patented May 3, 1927 unirsi) srAres Partnr ortica.

JOSEPH KAUFMANOF NEW YORK, N. Y., `A SSllBrNOR TO AMERICAN SAFETY RAZORCORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., 'A CORPORATION OF VIRGINA.

CONTAINER.

. Application filed July 5, 1924. Serial No. 724,229.4

My present invention relates generally to containers and to theirassociation and coordinately to such an association of containers aswill on the one hand suggest and drive home eifectively the advertisingand selling features of the article contained in one or them, and aswill on 'the other hand give to the user of the article a physical evi'-dence of the benefits resulting from its use.

fis is well known, the dcvelopn'ient of selfshaving is more or less tiedup with the development of what is known as the safety razor, of whichthere are numerous types on the market.

l/'Vhile the factors of convenience and cleanliness have had a greatdeal to do with the almost universal practice of men to shavethemselves, the greatest factor that has resulted in its universaldevelopment, and which factor has become of the greatest impartance, isthe saving resulting, particularly in view of the `fact that the cost ofshaving in establishments known as barber shops, has increased with thegeneral rise in the cost of all commodities and of service.

In order. to bring home this factor of saving and consequently toincrease the use of safety razors and their sale, slogans such as Shaveand Save7 have been adopted to put in as pithy and as attractive a way,the fact that by shavingoneself with an outfit the' initial cost ofwhich is relatively small and the upkeep of which is alsocorrespondingly small, a relatively large saving can'be effected. l

It is obvious that slogans such as Shave and Save have been presented tothe individual hitherto by advertisements of various characters, which,however, do notv generally bring home the effect thereof at the timedesired, namely, just at the time when the user is actually shaving.

One of the objects of my invention, is to form a razor case container ofsuch a character that the slogan Shave and Save or` its import, will beforcibly presented to the user of a razor containedin such case .everytime the individual 4uses such razor.

The human mind is limited, however, more or less to the specific, and incalculat-4 ing savings, the average person keeps .in

mind only the fact that a single shave costs, let us sav, twenty centsat a barber shop, and that asimilar operation at home, pro-rated for asufficiently long time, taking into consideration the initial cost andthe cost of replacement and upkeep,`r nay be, say only two cents, thusgiving a saving` of eighteen cents. The average individual, however,does not sit down to calculate, and even after he has done so, does notkeep in mind that while at each shave he saves eighteen cents, that inthe aggregate, for a period of a year, the saving willirun over andabove and even where he. does realize and keep in mind this aggregate ofsaving, .there is no actual evidence thereof as a distinct segregatedaccumulation of such saving over aperiod of time.

Another, important object of my invention is the provision of such a.character of case for the safety razor, which will not only at all timesremind a man of ,thel fact that he is saving by shaving .himself andwill suggest to him the fact that he permit thesavings to accun'iulate,but which will give him a physicalv arrangement whereby accumulations ofsuch savings can be made so that at the end of any stated period, as forinstance, at the end of -siX months ora year, he can not only telldefinitely what `the total saving has been as against the total cost,but in addition he will have such saving in a segregated fund. y

My invention further provides an association with a razor, of a moneycontainer, s0 that with each shaving operation there will be right athand not only a reminder that the user has economized, but also aphysical container in which the money so saved at thatparticular shavecan be put away and kept segregated.

Another important object of my invention is the provision of a new,useful, simple, economically constructed and effective container, andmore particularly one intended to ,associate containers having a singleaim in view, one of .which is to serve to receive a. razor and the otherto serve as a] bank.

For the attainmentof'these objects and of such other objects as mayhereinafter appear or be pointed out, I have illustrated one embodimentof my `invention in the drawings wherein f Fig. l is a perspective viewof the embodiment of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1; y

Fig., 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 `of Fig. 2;y

Fig. 4 is a section talien on line 4-4 of Figi'. 3; and

Fig. 5 is a sectional View of a detail taken on line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

Upon viewingv Fig. .l of the drawing, it will be observed that thespecific embodimeniherein disclosed, sinnilates a` book, and is providedwith side walls and end closures. The side walls 10, 11 and 12 arepreferably made of a single stamping and are provided at their oppositeends with the flanges 13 and 14 continuous with these three sides andpresented substantially at right angles thereto and parallel with eachother so as to form seats for the end closures to be more fullydescribed hereinafter.

The fonrth wall 15 is preferably made separate from the other threewalls and is curved so as to simulate the curved back portion of thebook and is secured to the end walls 11 and 12 in any preferred ordesired manner as by the flanges 1G and 17 bent from the f'alls 11 and12 under the straps 18 and 19 cut and bent up from the rca r wall 15.The outer ends of these flanges 1G and 17 are preferably bent inwardly,slightly, so as to maintain the four walls more effectively in assembledrelation.

The covers or end closures 2O and 21 are each secured in hinged relationwith the assembled side walls, preferably by cach having' a plurality oflugs or pintles 21', 22 and 23 extending therefrom, preferably in theplane of the cover or closure, these pintles being` received in theopenings in the straps 24, 25 and 26. Three such pintles have beenshown, and it is understood that this is merely for purposes ofillustration as any desired or preferred number may be employed.Adjacent the pintles 21 and 2B. the end closures are further eachprovided with the lugs 2S extending` preferably substantially at rightangles to the pintlcs and arranged to engage with the straps 24 and 26so as to form stops for the end closures when such closures are movedinto their open position. And upon viewing` Fig. 2 of the drawing, itwill be observed that the straps are bnclrled upwardly or outwardlyintermediate their ends` as shown at 28', 29 and 30, so that on the onehand, the end closures can be moved to a position substantially at rightangles to that of the container proper, and on the other hand, when theend closures are brought down into closed position, these upwardly bentportions 28', 29 and 30 will engage with the material of the endclosures which are preferably made of a springy sheet metal so as toplace such closures and straps under tension when the closures are movedand locked in their closed position, as will shortly be described, sothat when the end closures are released from their locking,` position,they will spring upwardly,

slightly, under the upward pressure of these portions 28, 29 and 30which are placed under compression when these closures are locked. Ihave en'iployed these additional lugs only in connection with the twoend hinges since l have found that l not only attain in (his manner thedesired rcsulls, but also attain il'v syn'niietrirally. 1

From the description thus far given, il, will be understood that l haveprovided a container which has hinged closures at its opposite ends andI divide this container into two compartments by associating therewithpreferably the Iintegrnl stamping, which has a vertical partition wallof a width to extend substantially across the width of the container andof a height to extend from top to bottom, from which vertical wallextend in opposite directionsI the wall. members 3G and 37 of suchlength that the member 3G extends fron'i the partition wall 35 to ayline closely adjacent the wall 11. and the wall member 37 extends ,inthe opposite direction to the line closely adjacent the wall 12.

lt will therefore be understood that when this integral stamping formingthe partition wall and wall members is assembled in the container in themanner shown in Fig. 2, that the container is thereby divided into twocompartments, one to the side of the other, one compartment, however,open at one face and the other open to the other face so that theclosure20 forms a closure for the compartment delimited by the walls 10,12, 15 and 35, and the other closure forms a closure for the compartmentdelimited by the end walls 10, 11, 15 and the partition wall 35.

Fixed in spaced relation to the front wall. is the member 40 (see Fig.2) and slidable in the. guide channel formed between this member and thewall 10 are the latch bolts 41 and 42 which,l are generally 'Y-shaped invertical cross-section, and these latches are normally, yieldablymaintained in their position adjacent each other in any preferred ordesired manner as by the spiral springs 44 and 45 which have their innerends attached to the opposite extreme ends of the member 4() and theirouter ends each attached to the outer ends of the latch bolts 41 and 42respectively.

The springs 44 and 45 and the slide latch bolts 41 and 42 are preferablysymn'iel'rically arranged with reference to the longitudinal andvertical axes of the front wall of the container and are so proportionedas to present the turned abutments 46 and 47 at their inner endsadjacent an opening;- 48 in the front wall 10 which opening;` is of acharacter such as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, so that upon theinsertion in this opening 48 of a key of appropriate design and size anda rotation of such key, the abutsimulate a book, the closure members eX-tendine' beyond the walls to canse them to simulate the covers oi abook, said dividing means comprising); an integral member having avertical wall, and horizontal walls extendingY in oppositie directions'trom the opposite ends thcreoi.

y-il-. ln a device ot the character described, in combination, acontainer, straps projecting; inwardly and spaced 'from the rear wallthereof, a closure ttor the container having lugs projectingl into thespace between the strap and the rear wall, said strap being' bentupwardly, whereby an additional increment olf movement is permitted theclosure so as to permit it to be moved into the plane of the rear wall.

5. ln a device et the character described, in combination, a container,straps projecting inwardly -from the rear wall thereof, a closure 'fiorthe container havingl lugs received between the rear wall and thestraps, the closure beine; made ot yieldable material, and the partsbeing' so arranged and cons rooted that the closure when moved to fullyclosed position, will first move to an initial position in which it isslifhtly open, and upon the continued application ol pressure to move itto fully closed position, it will be slightly distorted, whereby whenreleased from its Al'nlly closed position, the closure willautomatically assume a partly open position.

6. n a device of the character described, in combination, a container,comprising parallel side walls and a front .wall made of a singlestamping, and a rear wall made separable therefrom and adapted to beattached thereto, and closure members pivoted to said rear wall, wherebythe rear wall and the closure members can be assembled as a unit andfaced with material as a whole and then assembled with the other threewalls.

27. ln a device ot the character described, in combination, a container,comprising side walls, a liront wall and a rear wall, the front wallhavingflanges projecting' inwardly lrom the opposite edges thereof, alatch bolt received between said flanges for sliding movement along thefront, and having flanges projectingv from its opposite edges positionedadjacent the flanges of the iront wall, and lugs projecting 'trom the'flanges ot the latch bolt and serving as part ot the means for lockinga closure in position.

S. A container of the character described, said container being' made npof .separable units, one unit being in the form ot a single stampingformino; three adjacent walls of' the container', and the other unitcomprising' the rear 'fourth wall ot the container and adapted to beattached to the first unit to form the rear closure wall of thecontainer and closure members pivoted to said rear wall to complete thecontainer closure, whereby the rear wall and the closure members can beassembled as a unit and Faced with material as a whole and thenassembled with thc other three walls.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

JOSEPH KAUFMAN

